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artblog: life in the 700s
Life in the 700s is about everything from early cave drawings and fertility figures to the issues and shifting boundaries art generates and experiments with today. It reports from a world dominated by grey area, few answers and endless questions. It is also about exchanging ideas and information, and having a forum in which to respond to the Arts around us, both local and global.
In 1876, Melvil Dewey invented a system of library classification which attempted to organize all of human knowledge into ten major areas, one of which encompasses the Arts: the 700s. This category begins with the Arts in general then migrates to Landscaping/Area planning (710s), Architecture (720s), Sculpture/Ceramics/Metalwork (730s), Drawing/Decorative Arts (740s), Painting (750s), Graphic Arts (760s), Photography/Computer Art (770s), Music (780s) and wraps with Sports/Games/Entertainment (790s).
Recent Posts
Honey, I’m home!
Several tons of fun (almost)
Big Lumpy Sculpture makes its way upstairs for a little fresh air.
Can't make it in? View the exhibit online.
Yep, you can draw on the walls
Hybrid Visions, the Sabatini Gallery's annual exhibit for young people, opened today with a bang (POW!). Can't make it in? View the exhibit online.
Artist talk tonight!
Join us as we kick off the annual Children's Exhibit, Hybrid Visions, with artist and animal-bug-machine maker, Nicolas Lampert.
New Art Exhibit: 125 Years of Art at the Library
April 4 – May 16, 2008
Cotter Hirschberg Room
Sabatini Gallery
View the exhibit online:
Art at the Library
This exhibit traces the history of art collecting at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, shows examples of some of the first purchases and display spaces, and underscores the visionary role the Library has played, since its conception, in valuing art and arts education in a public library context. Curator: Zan Popp
The Sabatini Art Gallery is located a short distance from the Library entrance, just to the right of the rotunda. Exhibits, programs and events are free, casual and open to the public.
Hours are the same as the Library, except when closed for change of exhibition.
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